Word: developable
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...health care plans with racial discrepancies in outcome of more than 20 percent within the same plan. The study also found that only one health plan of all the plans that were tracked had both high performance and low disparity. The conclusions reached in the study can help plans develop programs to improve equality in treatment, said Trivedi. “[The study] provides specific information that can help [health care plans] design programs to eliminate disparities,” he said. Ayanian said that the Medicare program should work closely with health plans to monitor the quality of care...
...found - blending northern-Chinese substance with an international style more commonly found in China's worldlier south. Housed in a crumbling former state schoolhouse near the Workers' Stadium, the striking, design-driven watering hole and accompanying restaurants (Lan Na Thai and the Indian Hazara) cost $1.9 million to develop. As in Face Shanghai (there are also Face bars in Jakarta and Bangkok), eclectic pan-Asian chic is the order of the decorative day, incorporating a controlled mishmash of antiques and artworks from across the region. "Beijing is one of the world's oldest and greatest imperial cities," says Face...
...audits’ intention is not to build a culture of distrust between faculty members. Rather, our hope is that a culture in which faculty members feel free to provide constructive criticism to their colleagues will develop. This is already the case at many of Harvard’s professional schools, where professors will sit in on lectures and collegially make suggestions about a fellow professor’s teaching. We see no reason why this should not also be the case in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Professors who do not wish to submit to such constructive scrutiny...
...Harvard curriculum, we believe that the new general education system, the common intellectual ground of every College student, is the natural starting point for such improvements. In the long run, however, pedagogical improvement must not end with these courses. In fact, we hope that such a culture change will develop across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—the new system of general education is merely the best place to sow the seeds...
...official and a Nubian mother (the ethnic group found in southern Egypt and northern Sudan), Ibrahim got an engineering degree and started working for a telecommunications company in Sudan. He got his Ph.D. in the then-obscure field of mobile telecommunications, and eventually started a company called Celtel to develop mobile phone services in Africa. By 2005 it was operating all over the continent and was sold to a Kuwaiti company for $6 billion - the source of Ibrahim's wealth. He contends that Celtel never paid a bribe, and argues its success proves that real money can be made honestly...